(Pretoria) Well after almost 10 years of dodging the bullet,
the past has finally caught up with President Jacob Zuma. However South Africa has been plunged into political
turmoil when the country's ruling African National Congress announced it had
demanded the resignation of President Jacob Zuma -- but t Zuma has refused to go.
Top ANC officials, including party leader Cyril Ramaphosa, have
tried to persuade Zuma to step down in the face of a corruption scandal that
has sapped support for the party. But despite hours of talks, Zuma has refused
to budge.
The charges against the south President are many and go back
years, in fact before he became president he was sacked after Schabir Shaik,
his financial adviser, on trial appeared to implicate the deputy president on
corruption charges and thus he was sacked by the then President Thabo Mbeki. Here is how the South African Press reported it via cartoon:
Then there was that charge of rape, where the victim told him after the evil deed she was HIV positive. Zuma who didn't use protection, simply had a shower. He was found not guilty. Again the media had a field day at his expense:
There are loads more incidents from 2009 (when he became President ) found here. Of late he was found guilty of spending $23 million (£15 million) of the taxpayers money on his own home. He was forced to replay it. The writing was on the wall when in Oct last year when he was told he must face 18 counts of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering relating to the original 1999 arms deal which saw Shaik jailed, and who was released on Medical grounds in 2009 after 2 years in Prison. Anyway the writing is on the wall for Zuma so I'll leave you with the latest Cartoon from Madam and Eve regards the above crook:
Actually that was from last week, but I liked it, here is the latest:
